STINNER Victor added the comment: Brendan Moloney added the comment: > It would be nice if there was a supported way to create a DirEntry object from a path. If you don't want to document the constructor perhaps expose some helper function or class method (i.e. from_path)?
It's a deliberate choice to not expose the constructor. You should not built such objzct yourself. It requires low-level data coming from readdir() or FindFirstFile(). If you don't pass such data, you loose the whole purpose of the optimization. Maybe the DirEntry doc must be more explicit on that point? Please use pathlib instead. pathlib objects don't cache os.stat() result, but that's also deliberate! It was proposed to add an optional cache, but the idea was not accepted. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27038> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
